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Emacs and org-mode have been mentioned by others and I also use both. My
habit has been to keep a yearly org file that I record daily notes, but I
also keep individual org files for notes that are searched through using
the Deft package:
https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
In the course of working, there are notes I refer to frequently and Deft
makes it easy to find them, all from within Emacs.

Take care.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 6:10 PM Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:

> The 'hiring firmware people' thread got me to thinking about asking this
> question:
>
> How do you organize your notes so you can find them later for reference?
>
> At the moment I have about 7 years worth of notes with code and links and
> other references kept inside Emacs and org-mode (it's text base so I can
> look at it with any editor). I use a lot of features such as links (URLs
> and local file links and same file links), block mode (usually executable
> code fragments) and notebooks pointing to notebooks pointing to notebooks=
..
> Problem is that I'm beginning to find that I can't recall some detail tha=
t
> would lead me back to the specific notes. Lots of my projects have odd
> names or worse geek-code (letters and numbers - not as bad as UUIDs).
>
> I have attempted to use MS notes but find it annoying and limited (no
> lisp ;-) ). So I tend to take my org notes and print them out to a nice
> format MS Notes can use and stored them there. But Note's search is worse
> than my gigs of org files. I do have Unix tools on Windows and I have bee=
n
> using grep -rn . -e 'whatever' which helps but as the data grows the time
> it takes is getting worse.
>
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